How much do childhood wounds shape who we become? What does it mean to heal? How can you be a deeply feeling person in this world right now and not lose your mind? We'll get into all of that and more. Thanks for spending some time with me.
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Somebody That I Used to Know
There’s a thing about open doors: If you have to abandon yourself at the threshold so you can enter and be received with love, that open door is an invitation to betray yourself for someone else’s comfort. That open door is a trapdoor.
Hel...
David Hasselhoff Was Always Going to Be a Problem
There are things you need to understand if you want to grasp what’s happening with this “AI wiping out humanity” situation — and more importantly, how to stop it — and somehow, no one is mentioning The David Hasselhoff Pipeline. I’m as surp...
Somebody That I Used to Know
Last week I happened upon an article about parental estrangement. It was written by a mother whose grown daughter has gone no-contact. She was talking about the complicated grief of losing someone who is still alive.
I was drawn in because...
Crying in Public
As ever, this week’s episode is a riff off of this week’s essay. I don’t always read the essay to get things cooking, but I did this week because it felt like a good jumping off point to talk about the broader topic of having a little compa...
Crying in Public
There’s a thing about seeing a person when they’re trying not to cry, especially if they’re in a place where grownups are not supposed to be vulnerable — for example, anywhere public, doing anything “serious” because “grownups don’t cry” or...
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Personal essays and the podcast from Ally Hamilton, author of Open Randomly and Yoga’s Healing Power, and owner of YogisAnonymous.com
Dina Honour is an American woman writing at the intersection of parenting, feminism, politics and life. Meet her there and she'll tell you a story.
NYT bestselling author of Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing and Monster of a Land, coming June 2026. (Say “huff.” Good job.)
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